Publisher's Synopsis
The Corvinus Press is perhaps one of the most unjustly ignored British private presses of the twentieth century. This is partly because it was very much a private concern, the creation of Viscount Carlow who was a friend of T.E. Lawrence and one of the first Trustees of his literary estate. In total the press produced around fifty books during the period from 1936 until 1944, when Carlow was killed. A good proportion of the authors were Carlow's contemporaries, including Edmund Blunden and H.E. Bates, and some of the press's earliest books were works by Lawrence, including the Diary MCMXI, Two Arabic Folk Tales and an Essay on Flecker. - - The authors, who share an interest in T.E. Lawrence, have based their research on the large collection of Corvinus books at the Bodleian Library; this has been supplemented by contact with collectors of Corvinus books, on what little written evidence exists (such as the original ledger from the Press), and on personal recollections. The bibliography is the first ever complete listing of the books printed by or for the press.
